§ Petitions presented. For the abolition of Slavery, by Earl GROSVENOR, from Wiltshire:—By the Duke of GLOUCBSTER, from Winterslow, Malton, and four other places:—By the Earl of ELDON, from two Congregations of Wesleyans in Newcastle-on-Tyne:—By the Earl of CHICHESTER, from Hastings, and another place in Sussex:—By Lord CAWDOH, from the Wesleyans of Pembrokeshire:—By the Bishop of London, from Chester, and various other places:—By the Bishop of WINCHESTER, from Warminster, and several places in Wiltshire:—By Lord WHARNCLIFFE, from the Independent Congregations of Wortley, near Leeds, of Dent, of Huddersfield, and nineteen other places in Yorkshire.
§ Lord TENTERDEN laid on the Table five Bills; viz. a Bill to regulate the method of taking Arbitrations: a Bill to enable Courts of Law to order the Examination of Witnesses: a Bill to improve the proceedings in Prohibition and Writs of Mandamus: a Bill to enable Courts of Law to give relief, &c.: and a Bill for the more speedy judgment and execution in Actions brought at Westminster, which he had framed in compliance with recommendations contained in the second Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the Common Law.
§ The Earl of ELDON laid on the Table a Bill to amend the Bankrupt Laws.